Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl have a lot in common — or so the Beatle realized when writing his speech inducting the Foo Fighters into the “fucking Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” as he dubbed it Saturday night. In a short speech that the former Beatle gave in Cleveland …
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A trailer for the six-part Hulu documentary series McCartney 3, 2, 1 has been released. It shows Paul McCartney and Rick Rubin dissecting Beatles classics like “Come Together,” “All My Loving,” “With a Little Help From My Friends,” and “In My Life,” sharing behind-the-scenes stories, and even playing bits of …
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Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Noel Gallagher, and other British and U.K.-based musicians have signed an open letter to England’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on him to embrace reforms that would improve streaming revenues for artists, performers, and songwriters. The letter is backed by the Musicians’ Union and the Ivors …
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Paul McCartney has tapped St. Vincent, Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, Anderson .Paak, and more for III Imagined, an album of McCartney III reinterpretations, remixes, and covers. Josh Homme, Blood Orange, Khruangbin, Damon Albarn, Massive Attack’s 3D RDN, and Radiohead’s Ed O’ Brien (under his solo moniker EOB) also contribute to the …
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Paul McCartney was interviewed onThe Howard Stern Show earlier this week, where he revealed that he and Taylor Swift made sure that their respective albums — Swift’s Evermore and McCartney’s McCartney III — didn’t come out on the same day. “I did the Rolling Stone cover with Taylor Swift, and …
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Fifty years ago, the Beatles walked across a street in London for a photo shoot that would become the cover of their next album, Abbey Road — an anniversary that was commemorated on Thursday with crowds and news crews. But for John Kosh, the Apple Records art director who had …
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